Pub Date : 2020-02-12DOI: 10.5325/jmedirelicult.46.1.0053
Gillian Adler
abstract:Although Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy and Julian of Norwich's Showings are associated with different visionary traditions of the Middle Ages, the shared metaphors of sight, sickness, and space in these works suggest that they in fact may be read within the same textual community. Using the vision form, Boethius and Julian demonstrate how personal transformation and spiritual illumination depend upon spaces of seemingly restrictive confinement. These authors similarly stress the idea of vision as a metaphor for spiritual insight and sickness as the opportunity for recuperation, as they pluralize the meaning of their physical cells. The attention to spatial orientation and physical circumstance emphasizes the cataphatic articulation of both authors' visionary experiences and undermines traditional Augustinian attitudes toward the division of body and soul.
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Pub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.5325/jmedirelicult.46.2.0186
Gayk
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Pub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.5325/jmedirelicult.46.2.0195
Richmond
{"title":"Review","authors":"Richmond","doi":"10.5325/jmedirelicult.46.2.0195","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jmedirelicult.46.2.0195","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40395,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73711759","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.5325/jmedirelicult.46.2.0190
Pokorski
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Pub Date : 2019-08-08DOI: 10.5325/JMEDIRELICULT.45.2.0085
C. D. Morrée
abstract:Scholars of late medieval religious practice have focused on the expression of personal devotion and on the use of individualized devotional texts and books. Particularly manuscript collections of Middle Dutch religious song are thought to have been used in personalized devotional practices of individuals, even though previous research generally did not include codicological analysis. Using both codicological research and textual analysis of twelve Middle Dutch religious song manuscripts and their contents (ca. 1470–1550), this article demonstrates that these sources contain indications for both individual use and for use in group activities.
{"title":"Singing Together Alone: Dynamics Between Individual and Community in Middle Dutch Religious Song Collections","authors":"C. D. Morrée","doi":"10.5325/JMEDIRELICULT.45.2.0085","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/JMEDIRELICULT.45.2.0085","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:Scholars of late medieval religious practice have focused on the expression of personal devotion and on the use of individualized devotional texts and books. Particularly manuscript collections of Middle Dutch religious song are thought to have been used in personalized devotional practices of individuals, even though previous research generally did not include codicological analysis. Using both codicological research and textual analysis of twelve Middle Dutch religious song manuscripts and their contents (ca. 1470–1550), this article demonstrates that these sources contain indications for both individual use and for use in group activities.","PeriodicalId":40395,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43480171","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-08-08DOI: 10.5325/JMEDIRELICULT.45.2.0139
Jacob Riyeff
abstract:This article presents the first study, edition, and modern English translation of a Latin treatise for novice Benedictine monks copied at the English monastery of Bury St. Edmunds in the fourteenth century in Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley 240. The treatise is comprised of two primary parts, the first describing a monastic program of meditation or contemplation to be followed throughout the day, the second discussing the benefits and nature of "the discipline" (the practice of flagellation) for curing a lack of devotion to monastic practice. The introduction and notes place the treatise within the larger context of the manuscript, of religious life and history in England and the West more generally, and of the treatise author's sources, monastic heritage, and a variety of traditional and innovative medieval genres. The text is finally placed in the context of newer historiography on late medieval English monasticism and the relationship of monastics to their lay associates.
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Pub Date : 2019-08-08DOI: 10.5325/JMEDIRELICULT.45.2.0113
Steven Rozenski, C. Jones
abstract:A fragment of one of the earliest German prose passion meditations, the anonymous Christi Leiden in einer Vision geschaut, has recently been discovered in a macaronic miscellany in Houghton Library. While the entire text has been edited in 1936 and 1952, the Houghton fragment contains significant variants that warrant further investigation. In addition to a study of the manuscript tradition of the Christi Leiden and this manuscript's place within it, we also present an edition of the Houghton version alongside a translation into modern English.
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Pub Date : 2019-01-30DOI: 10.5325/JMEDIRELICULT.45.1.0001
A. Clark
Abstract:In his Letter to Romans, Paul mentions an otherwise unknown woman named Phoebe, whom he extols as a deacon or minister. Peter Abelard reviewed patristic opinions about Phoebe, putting into currency ancient debates over women's roles in liturgical and teaching ministry. About two decades later, Phoebe was again resurrected, even more surprisingly, in a manuscript where she was not mentioned textually but invoked visually. The appearance of Phoebe—an apostolic model of women's ministry—in an age of emerging forms of women's religious life, reveals tensions among men about the possibilities of women's religious leadership and transmission of knowledge.
{"title":"Remembering Phoebe in the Twelfth Century: The Forgotten Deacon in Paul's Letter to Romans","authors":"A. Clark","doi":"10.5325/JMEDIRELICULT.45.1.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/JMEDIRELICULT.45.1.0001","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In his Letter to Romans, Paul mentions an otherwise unknown woman named Phoebe, whom he extols as a deacon or minister. Peter Abelard reviewed patristic opinions about Phoebe, putting into currency ancient debates over women's roles in liturgical and teaching ministry. About two decades later, Phoebe was again resurrected, even more surprisingly, in a manuscript where she was not mentioned textually but invoked visually. The appearance of Phoebe—an apostolic model of women's ministry—in an age of emerging forms of women's religious life, reveals tensions among men about the possibilities of women's religious leadership and transmission of knowledge.","PeriodicalId":40395,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42121795","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-01-30DOI: 10.5325/JMEDIRELICULT.45.1.0061
Laura Godfrey
Abstract:This article argues that Julian consistently alludes to her initial bodily and visionary experience in revising the Short Text into the Long Text in order to mark the importance of bodily suffering as part of her spiritual transformation. Julian refers to these moments as astonishment, drawing on a medieval understanding of a combined sensory and cognitive deprivation that precedes insight. This is most apparent in the Parable of the Lord and Servant in which Julian frames the vision with her own bodily experience, implicitly translating her own pain into the parable's servant.
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Pub Date : 2019-01-30DOI: 10.5325/JMEDIRELICULT.45.1.0029
Hannah Lucas
Abstract:This article examines how the engagement with textiles and textile-craft in The Book of Margery Kempe facilitates the performance of Margery's female religious identity. Drawing on the fundamental precepts of performance theory, the article responds to recent scholarly interest in the manifestations of material devotional culture and the performative body. It first maps out the charged theological significations of textiles and their subsequent transformative potential. Then, it examines how Margery finds an active tool in "fabrics of devotion" in the form of saintly relics, images, and garments themselves, and how Margery's adoption of white garb refashions her body in the image of a saintly matrilineage. It concludes that interaction with Bridgettine visual and material objects supplies Margery with a new Marian iconography, which allows her to perform a double imitatio, weaving together the thread of her own life into the rich tapestry of archetypal holy women.
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